1765 in Scotland

Events from the year 1765 in Scotland.

Law officers

 * Lord Advocate – Thomas Miller of Glenlee
 * Solicitor General for Scotland – James Montgomery

Judiciary

 * Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Arniston, the younger
 * Lord Justice General – Duke of Queensberry
 * Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Minto

Events

 * May – James Watt makes a breakthrough in the development of the steam engine by constructing a model with a separate condenser, an idea which has come to him in a walk on Glasgow Green.
 * Sugar refinery at Greenock opened.
 * Settlement at Grantown-on-Spey planned.

Births

 * 11 January – John A. Macdonald, first Canadian Prime Minister (died 1891 in Ottawa)
 * 22 April – James Grahame, poet, lawyer and clergyman (died 1811)
 * 20 July – Peter Nicholson, architect, engineer and mathematician (died 1844 in Carlisle)
 * 24 August – Thomas Muir of Huntershill, radical (died 1799 in France)
 * 24 October – James Mackintosh, polymath (died 1832 in London)

Deaths

 * 3 April – Jean Adam, poet and songwriter (born 1704)
 * 30 November – George Glas, merchant adventurer (born 1725; murdered at sea)

The arts

 * First publication of the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens".
 * Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet (1824) presents an alternate history of this year.